BIOGRAPHY

Klára Hůrková

 

was born in Prague, Czech Republic, and lives in Aachen, Germany. She is a poet, prose writer and translator, writes in Czech, German and English. Hůrková has published twelve collections of poetry, two collections of short stories, a novella and a literary research study on Tom Stoppard and Václav Havel. Her poems have received various awards and have been translated into different languages. Hůrková studied Philosophy, English Literature and Art History and works as a teacher of English and Art. She is a member of the Czech P.E.N. Centre.

 

LITERARY AWARDS

 

First Prize in the English Poetry Contest of

The World Congress of Poets 2023 on MSC Divina, Mediterranean Sea, Italy and Greece

 

POSTPOETRY Nordrhein-Westfalen 2018, NRW, Germany

 

Preis für politische Lyrik 2017, Thema "Europa" 

2. Platz (Publikumsabstimmung), für das Poème collectif "Kolonien der Strömung", zusammen mit Monika Littau und Maria Topali. Berlin, Germany.

 

Wiener Werkstattpreis 2003, Thema „Grenzen“, Sparte Lyrik.

1. Platz der Leserwertung und 2. Platz der Jury, Vienna, Austria

 

The Hilton House Poet of the Year, Norwich, 1998.

2 Special Commendations (Category A for Individual Poems and Category B for Collections). Norwich, United Kingdom

Laureát uměleckých cen Občanského sdružení V-Art, 2003, Písek, Czech Republic